The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
A CONVERT TO BUDDHA.
The Cause of a Divorce Suit.
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Alice c. Salter, through John G. Mitchell,
filed bill in the City Circuit Court yester-
day, prayin o uvorce from her husband,
George W. Salter, to whom shewas married
AIril 4, 1888, at ST. Lukes P E. Church.
The Ull alleges un1J alter the marriage
Salter took his wife to st. Louis, Mo. j.,
where he NOV ed IRON one boarding house to
another until Ju Y, 1888, when they went to
New York city n one week, and then he
took her home to Virginia They afterward
lived in Brooklyn, from October, 1884, to
May, 1885, and the wife then came to
Baltimore. She charges that Saiter is
fanatic on tie subject of mind cures and
Buddhism, and tnat he says ne is studying
to become a Buddhist priest, as that is
the only true religion, and that he has
sought to press that belief upon her.
Further, that Salter has other vagarieS that
unfit him for any kind of business.
In conversation with a reporter last
night Mrs Salter said she was guided in
Ter action by her solicitude for her little
girl, whom she wished to remove from the
influence of her husbands queer ideas.
Besides being a religious fanatic she
continued, "Mr. Salter is an advocate of the
mind cure theory, which he isnow regularly
practicing in Brooklyn. Before l married
him knew him as a great temperance leader
employ of a leading dry goods house in this
city. In St. Louis, Chicago and Brooklyn
suppose he must have had eight or ten
different positions in half as many years.
He lost most of his places by inattention to
duty and the absorption Of his mind ia
whatever ism there happened to be going
around at the time. He had perfect
mania for reading and arguing points
advanced by cranks of almost every
i a he
ance banner, he took up the mind-cure
theory which he afterward tried upon me
during a spell of sickness. The test was
that must imagine myself well, and |
would get well. His plan might work
where the complaint is some trivial illness,
but where a person has a chronic affection
or is in danger of death, / think it is folly to
experiment in any such theory. He also
tried the cure ON my child when she was
sick, but it failed He became proficient in
the mind-cure business in college in
Boston, where he attended course of
lectures, and read extensively on the subject.
It was in the midst Of this hobby that q
Buddhist priest arrived in New York, and
he became wild over him. He attended
his lectures, studied his doctrine, and then
embraced his religion. He persuaded me by
every means in his power to loin the religion,
hut. of course, refused. He also adopted
but vegetables and fish-lneat OF every
description being barred from the table.
His explanation Of this ethereal menu was
that it was more like unto the spirit diet
and was, therefore, better calculated to
draw the two into closer communion. All
of this sort of thing made me shudder for
the future of my child, and resolved me to
apply for divorce. Mr.. Salter, as yet,
knows nothing of my action, But | suppose
be will soon hear of it"
"Do you anticipate any opposition from
hing
81 think at first he will fret about it, but
it is likely he will finally withdraw all OBJ
stacles.n
elias he ever asked you TO return to him,
or does he ever write your =
"He visited me some time ago, when
was living in the country with my father,
hut he did not ask me to go back to Brook
lyn with him when he returned. AS to
writing. me occasionally sends me manuscript
and rarers recording wonderfH things
B about his many doctrines. His associates
call themselves 'cranis, one OF whom Is
better known as Christi
Mrs Salter and her child are now living
with her father, Mr.. Alexander Yerby, at
No. 1905 John street, above Mosher.